Day: April 16, 2026

According to various historical accounts,
Saint Joseph of Cupertino could smell sin,
“foul, unbearable odors around certain people.”

In various passages in the Bible the stench
of sin is written about.

Pray, Pilgrim, that when you die, you smell
like the lillies in the fields instead of
the skunks in the forests.

Pray, Pilgrim that all this talk about the
stench of sin is metaphorical,

and you won’t need deodorant
in the hereafter.

Bob Boyd

Assuming there’s an afterlife, which I believe
there is

I’ve often wondered if I would meet people there
I knew on earth and didn’t like

Were I to meet people I didn’t like in the afterlife
or people who didn’t like me

that would turn my afterlife experiences from the
supposed light and love into a hereafter hell.

Bob Boyd

When he was a child,
he prayed to God for a pony,
never got it.

He was led to believe God
was like a genie in a bottle
that you prayed to for things
and you got them.

Throughout the years
most of his prayers went
unanswered

and he wondered if God
really ever answered
prayers

or if those prayers he
thought might have been
answered were merely
conindences

he never lost his belief
in God, but he became
a skeptic about the
effectiveness of prayers.

Bob Boyd